73 8 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



We learn, from the prospectus of the Yale Theological School, that 

 " the chief aim of the seminary is to ti*ain men to be preachers of the 

 Gospel, and especially such teachers as the present state of the world 

 requires." Its course of study is as follows : 



Junior year, encyclopaedia and literature of theology, and instruc- 

 tion in Hebrew grammar and philology ; exegetical study of the 

 Greek New Testament ; mental philosophy, with special reference 

 to the study of theology also natural theology ; the evidences of 

 Christianity, and the inspiration of the Scriptures also, as incidental 

 to these topics, the various forms of skepticism ; middle year, sys- 

 tematic theology ; general church history ; Biblical theology ; critical 

 study of the New Testament; American church history; senior year, 

 sacred rhetoric and homiletics ; pastoral theology ; Christian doctrine 

 and on symbolical theology; chnrch polity; lectures in natural the- 

 ology and moral philosophy ; natural philosophy ; history ; political 

 economy ; anatomy and physiology. The undergraduate departments 

 are open to the divinity students, as also are the courses in the Shef- 

 field Scientific School. 



The course at Princeton differs in having a department entitled 

 " The Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion," extending through 

 the junior and senior years of the undergraduate department as a 

 required course. " The first year of the course includes the study of 

 natural theology, as connected with the physical sciences which illus- 

 trate the being and attributes of the Creator ; and of natural religion, 

 as connected with the mental and moral sciences which illustrate the 

 Divine government, future state, and probation." The second part 

 of* the course includes a similar defense of revealed religion by the 

 inductive logic, with the study of the miraculous, prophetic, historical, 

 and scientific evidences of Christianity. The third part includes the 

 study of inductive science as connected with revealed religion ; the 

 history of their seeming conflicts and alliances ; the logic applicable 

 to their relations, and the growing evidences of their harmony as alike 

 involving the promotion of perfect science and the vindication of the 

 Christian religion. The text-books used, in the elementary part of 

 the course, are Paley's " Natural Theology," Butler's " Analogy of 

 Religion and Nature," and Bacon's " Novum Organum ; " with fre- 

 quent lectures upon the topics of which they treat, as well as upon 

 other more recent questions emerging in the different sciences which 

 are in relation with revealed religion. 



It will be seen that scarcely any attention is paid to a scientific train- 

 ing, or to methods of scientific thought. The young divinity student 

 who enters any theological school without a preliminary college 

 education can know nothing of the great questions upon which he is 

 destined to preach with more or less confidence. The time of study, 

 indeed, may be too short for a scientific course in any divinity school. 

 And it is to be doubted whether general lectures on science, or on 



